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Hello, hope you all have a good weekend and are looking for a somewhat mind expanding finale to the weekend. Spacetime Continuum will take that task upon themselves here. Themselves is plural for one multitalented man, Jonah Sharp, during the nineties he released 4 albums , 10 12" and a compilation, not much was heard of him musically until in 2009 he returned as Reagenz (a collaboration with Move D) and released a well received Playtime.
Todays musix is both in ogg and flac and i point you here to the alien dreamtime album i posted 4 years ago it's available in flac too right here !

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Ambient techno innovator Jonah Sharp has recorded several albums and EPs as Spacetime Continuum and played an important role in consolidating the San Francisco experimental ambient and techno scenes through his Reflective imprint. A London native and an acid jazz drummer before embarking on his career in electronic music, Sharp was an in-demand session drummer until the rigours of the club scene and the mawkish obsolescence of the genre had him experimenting with other styles. Going onto ambient and techno as a DJ, Sharp was a founding member of the periodic Spacetime parties, held in a hologram factory in London and hosted early ambient luminaries.

Sharp left London for America in the early '90s, settling in San Francisco, where he established his Reflective label and recorded the bulk of his work to date. Although that work has been split over a number of different project headings (Emit Ecaps, Alien Community, Reagenz, Electro Harmonix, and others), his most consistently visible work has been as Spacetime Continuum. Sharp signed a non-exclusive multi-album deal with Astralwerks in 1992 and released his first full-length work -- a live recording of a collaboration with visionary author Terrence McKenna and didgeridoo player Stephen Kent -- Alien Dreamtime

The largely ambient Sea Biscuit followed in 1994, and was released through the Fax label in Europe (Sharp has recorded a number of collaborative projects for Fax). Emit Ecaps, released in early 1996, returned to Sharp's dancefloor roots, incorporating elements of techno. It also spawned a remix album, Remit Recaps, featuring work by Autechre, Plaid, and others. In addition to a smattering of Sharp-related releases (including the collectible Flurescence EP), the Reflective label issued albums by Subtropic, Velocette, Kid Spatula (aka Mike Paradinas), and Single Cell Orchestra, as well as a stream of 12-inches. The next Spacetime Continuum full-length, Double Fine Zone, appeared in 1999.

He had recorded the first eponymous album, 'Reagenz' in 1994 after meeting David Moufang (Move D) before an Autechre show in San Francisco. In May 2008 they met up again, having not seen each other for 13 years, in Tokyo (again at an Autechre show!) and managed to spend productive days in a studio owned by a Japanese analog synth collector. They did another session in Heidelberg and David also visited Jonah in early 2009, finalizing "Playtime" .

Jonah Sharp has also released collaborations with Tetsu Inoue, Bill Laswell, Mixmaster Morris, Pete Namlook, David Moufang, and Plaid. He has remixed songs from Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ponga, Teknostep, Susumu Yokota, and Matt Herbert. He has produced songs for Ursula Rucker and Paradise Boys. In addition to music production and remixing, he is a DJ. His work has had a clear influence on contemporary psybient artists, such as Shpongle and others.

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Sharp's first album-length solo work is full of expansive, fluffy environments, a bit sugary at times and with a tendency to go nowhere in particular. Interesting, engulfing arrangements place, it's beauty, soulfullness and genius makes it an outstanding piece of sound scape. Listened to on mushrooms it borders on enlightenment!

Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit (flac 449mb)

01 Pressure 10:25
02 Subway 12:00
03 Ping Pong 6:33
04 Voice Of The Earth 11:33
05 Floatilla 9:08
06 Q 11 11:08
07 A Low Frequency Inversion Field 13:07

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Jonah Sharp's second studio album keeps much of the atmospheric beauty of Sea Biscuit intact, but the material usually works only as an introduction to devastating beat work on tracks like "Kairo" and "Funkyar," both of which recall the chunkier side of electro quite convincingly. All in all, Emit Ecaps is a fascinating fusion of rhythm and ambient.

Spacetime Continuum – Emit Ecaps (flac 402mb)

01 Iform 6:42
02 Kairo 11:48
03 Simm City 3:37
04 Funkyar 5:36
05 Swing Fantasy 6:58
06 Movement # 2 6:38
07 Vertigo 7:27
08 Twister 4:20
09 Pod 6:26
10 String Of Pearls 6:42

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elsewhere and still essential after 2 decades

Terence McKenna with Spacetime Continuum - Alien Dreamtime (flac 404mb ~New !)

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